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APP IDEA #28 · IT-AS-A-SERVICE · B2B

Uhoh.com — an IT department on subscription for growing businesses

Co-founded by Jon Sturgeon (CEO of Dingus & Zazzy), Uhoh is what happens when you take the IT department most growing companies can't afford — and turn it into a fast, affordable monthly subscription. No tickets. A support pod assigned to your company. Human answers to tech problems, fast. Starts at ₹2.5L/month for up to 50 staff.

₹2.5L+
Starting monthly price for up to 50 staff
TrustMRR
Verified — specific MRR not public
Pod
Dedicated IT support team assigned per client
No tickets
Fast human answers, not a helpdesk queue
01 / HOW IT WORKS

What the app actually does

Uhoh's insight is that the existing IT support model — submit a ticket, wait for a response, get passed between teams — is broken for companies with 10-50 people. They replace that with a "support pod" model: a small dedicated team who knows your company's stack and responds like a colleague, not a call center.

1

Business subscribes and gets onboarded by their dedicated support pod

Onboarding covers auditing what software and devices the company uses — so the pod knows the stack before the first issue comes in.

2

Staff message or call the pod directly when something breaks

No ticket numbers. No "we'll get back to you in 24-48 hours." The pod answers fast — the whole value prop is that IT issues stop being a workflow bottleneck.

3

Proactive monitoring catches problems before they become incidents

The pod monitors SaaS subscriptions (catching unused seats and shadow IT), device status, and compliance posture — fixing things before the CEO's laptop breaks or a software license lapses.

4

Monthly report shows what was fixed, what was prevented, and what's coming

IT spend becomes visible and justified — instead of "we paid someone to fix stuff," the client sees a clear log of resolved issues, prevented outages, and upcoming license renewals.

02 / INDIA POTENTIAL

Does this work as an India play

India's MSME and startup sector is enormous, and almost none of it has a proper IT setup. Most companies under 50 people rely on one overworked generalist or have nothing at all. The "IT department as a subscription" model barely exists in India yet.

63M+
MSMEs in India with 10-200 employees — most have zero formal IT support, relying on "the person who knows computers" or ad-hoc freelancers when something breaks.
WhatsApp
Indian businesses communicate via WhatsApp — IT support delivered over WhatsApp (not email tickets) is the India-native version of Uhoh's fast-response model.
₹25K/mo
Realistic India-priced entry tier vs Uhoh's $3,000/month (~₹2.52L) — opens the Indian startup and MSME segment where paying ₹2.52L for IT support is out of reach but ₹25,000 is defensible.
SOC 2
Indian B2B SaaS companies selling to US/EU customers increasingly need SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification. A subscription IT service that helps with compliance prep is a defensible high-value add-on.
03 / THE WEEKEND BUILD

Friday to Sunday, hour by hour

This is a service business more than a pure SaaS — the MVP is a client portal and support workflow, not complex infrastructure. Scoped to a WhatsApp-first support model for Indian SMBs with ₹25,000/month pricing.

Friday
Evening · 3 hrs
7–8 PM Set up a Next.js project, Supabase for auth/database, and build the client onboarding form — company name, employee count, what software they use, and key contacts.
8–9 PM Build the client dashboard — a simple internal view where clients can see open issues, request help, and track what's been resolved.
9–10 PM Set up the WhatsApp Business API integration — incoming WhatsApp messages from client staff trigger a new support ticket in the system automatically.
Saturday
Full day · 7 hrs
Morning Build the support pod dashboard — your team's view showing all open tickets across all clients, assigned owners, status (open/in-progress/resolved), and client SLA.
Afternoon Add the SaaS subscription audit tool — clients connect their Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 admin and the system lists all active subscriptions, unused seats, and shadow IT apps detected.
Evening Build the proactive monitoring dashboard — device status, upcoming license renewals, and a compliance checklist showing what each client still needs to do for SOC 2 lite readiness.
Sunday
5 hrs
Morning Build the monthly report generator — pulls resolved tickets, prevented issues, and upcoming renewals into a PDF report sent to the client automatically on the 1st of each month.
Afternoon Razorpay integration — ₹25,000/month for up to 25 employees, ₹45,000/month for up to 50 employees, auto-renewing monthly subscription.
Evening Test the full client-to-pod WhatsApp flow end-to-end, confirm ticket creation works, record the demo for your first post.
04 / APP STACK

What you're actually building with

Nx

Next.js 14

Frontend + API routes

Client portal, pod dashboard, and monthly report generator in one framework.

Sb

Supabase

Auth + database

Stores clients, staff contacts, tickets, SaaS audit data, and resolution logs.

Wa

WhatsApp Business API

Support channel

Receives client staff messages and creates tickets automatically — the India-native support channel.

Gw

Google Workspace Admin API

SaaS audit

Lists all active apps, seats, and licenses connected to the client's Google Workspace — the Shadow IT detection layer.

Rz

Razorpay

Payments

₹25,000-₹45,000/month auto-renewing subscription tiers based on employee count.

Pdf

PDF generation (puppeteer)

Monthly reports

Renders the monthly resolved-issues and upcoming-renewals report as a clean PDF sent to client leadership.

05 / WHERE & HOW TO DEPLOY

Going live

This is a service business, not a pure software play — the tech is the delivery mechanism, but the actual product is fast, knowledgeable human IT support. The moat is the quality of your team, not the code. Deploy the platform on Vercel + Supabase. The real investment is hiring or training the support pod.

Push your project to GitHub, import into Vercel, add environment variables.
Add environment variables: SUPABASE_URL, SUPABASE_KEY, WHATSAPP_API_TOKEN, GOOGLE_ADMIN_API_KEY, RAZORPAY_KEY.
Deploy — Vercel gives you a live .vercel.app URL in under a minute.
Onboard 2-3 test clients at ₹0 for the first month to validate the support workflow before charging.
Hire or train one technical support person before taking on paying clients — the tech is table stakes, the human is the product.
06 / MARKETING & REVENUE

Getting paying users

How to market it

  • Post the "we fixed 9 IT problems for this Bengaluru startup in one month, here's what broke" breakdown as a reel — specific problems and fast resolutions are more credible than generic IT support promises.
  • Run 3-5 reels/day targeting Indian startup founders, operations managers, and SMB owners — people who have personally been blocked by broken tech and know the pain.
  • The WhatsApp support angle is an India-specific reel: "your IT support should reply on WhatsApp, not a ticket system" — this will resonate immediately with any Indian SMB owner.
  • Cold outreach directly to 20-person startup founders on LinkedIn who are actively hiring in engineering — companies growing fast inevitably hit IT problems.
  • Offer a free one-month SOC 2 readiness audit for any startup selling to US customers — compliance is a high-urgency pain point that converts fast.

Who pays, and why

  • Indian startups with 10-50 employees that are growing too fast for ad-hoc IT and too small to justify a full-time IT hire.
  • Bootstrapped or early-stage funded founders who handle IT themselves and want to delegate the entire category.
  • Indian B2B SaaS companies needing SOC 2 or ISO 27001 preparation for international enterprise customers.
Scenario
Paying clients/mo
Revenue/mo
Pilot — 3 clients
3 × ₹25,000
₹75,000/mo
Growing — 15 clients
15 × ₹35,000 avg
₹5,25,000/mo
Scaled — 50 clients + 3-5 reels/day
50 × ₹35,000 avg
₹17,50,000/mo
07 / START BUILDING

Paste this into Claude or GPT

This prompt sets up the full build context so the AI scopes, plans, and starts coding the project with you from message one.

BUILD_PROMPT.txt
I want to build an IT-department-as-a-subscription service for the Indian startup and MSME market, inspired by Uhoh.com, scoped to ship a working client portal in a single weekend. Core product: 1. Client companies subscribe (₹25,000/month for up to 25 employees, ₹45,000/month for up to 50). 2. During onboarding, they fill in their tech stack — what software they use, devices, key contacts — so the support pod knows their setup before the first issue. 3. Client staff message the support pod directly on WhatsApp — incoming WhatsApp messages automatically create support tickets in the system. 4. The pod has an internal dashboard showing all open tickets across all clients, with assigned owners, status tracking, and resolution logging. 5. A SaaS subscription audit tool (connected via Google Workspace Admin API) lists all active apps, unused seats, and shadow IT detected — shown in the client portal. 6. A compliance checklist shows each client's SOC 2 lite readiness status. 7. A monthly PDF report is auto-generated and emailed to the client on the 1st of each month — showing resolved tickets, prevented issues, and upcoming renewals. Stack I want to use: Next.js 14 for the client portal and pod dashboard, Supabase for auth and database, WhatsApp Business API for support ticket creation from WhatsApp messages, Google Workspace Admin API for the SaaS audit, Puppeteer or a PDF library for monthly report generation, Razorpay for the monthly subscription. Deploy target: Vercel. Help me, step by step, one question at a time: 1. Scope the database schema for clients, tickets, staff contacts, SaaS audit data, and resolution logs in Supabase. 2. Build the client onboarding form and the basic client portal first. 3. Build the WhatsApp webhook that converts incoming messages into support tickets. 4. Build the pod internal dashboard with ticket management and status tracking. 5. Build the Google Workspace SaaS audit integration. 6. Build the monthly PDF report generator. 7. Wire up Razorpay for the subscription tiers. Important: This is a service business, not just software. Help me think through how to structure the support pod workflow — how many people per client, what response time SLAs are realistic, and what to include in the onboarding checklist — alongside the technical build. Push me to ship the smallest working version first. If I get stuck on anything, tell me to ask @buildwithkanhaa.

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